
At a glance...
 Maxim D. Shrayer Department of English College of Arts and Sciences
shrayerm@bc.edu
http://fmwww.bc.edu/SL-V/ShrayerM.html
Office Location Lyons Hall 201 B Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Phone: 617-552-3911 Fax: 617-552-3913
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EDUCATION
B.A., Brown University, 1989 M.A., Rutgers University (New Brunswick), 1990 M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University, 1995
ACADEMIC PROFILE
Professor of Russian and English: Co-director, Jewish Studies Program Specializes in Russian, Jewish, and Anglo-American literature, comparative literature, translation studies, and creative writing.
RECENTLY TAUGHT COURSES
EN175 - Jewish Writers in Russia & America
EN227- Classics/Russian Literature-English
EN303- Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
EN775 - Nabokov
PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)
- Waiting for America: A Story of Emigration (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2007 forthcoming)
- An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: Two centuries of a Dual, 1801-2001, 2 vols. (Armonk, New York and London, M E Sharpe, 2007).
- David Shrayer-Petrov, Autumn in Yalta: A Novel and Three Stories, by David Shrayer-Petrov, edited and cotranslated by Maxim D. Shrayer (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006).
- Jonah and Sarah: Jewish Stories of Russia and America, by David Shrayer-Petrov, edited and cotranslated by Maxim D. Shrayer (Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 2003).
- Russian Poet/Soviet Jew: The Legacy of Eduard Bagritskii (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000).
- Nabokov: Themes and Variations (St. Petersburg; Academic Project, 2000).
- The World of Nabokov's Stories (Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1999).
ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION
Maxim D. Shrayer's English-language translations, prose, and poetry have appeared in AGNI, Commentary, Kenyon Review, Massachusetts Review, Salmagundi, Southwest Review and other magazines. He is the author of 3 collections of Russian verse: Tabun nad lugom (Herd above the Meadow, 1990), Amerikanskii romans (Amerikan romance, 1994), and N'iukheivenskie sonety (New Haven Sonnets, 1998).
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